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Stephen Carlsen died in 2025. His family knew vaguely that he had worked on creating the file format TIFF, but it was his nephew, Nathan Carlsen, who kicked off a quest for the full story. This week, senior producer Hans Buetow talks with Nathan about his oral history project to document his uncle’s work, and we hear a fascinating conversation that Nathan had with Donovan Cameron, a First Nation GIS specialist who uses the TIFF in unexpected ways.

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Mr. Tiff

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

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It comes like this.

With tiny fingers screeching along the sidewalk screeching

screeching waiting

more than waiting.

It comes like this.

Writing a spasmotic gait of a

too quick operation speech

like the broke spoke of

wheels of things of

machine crossed human crossed with

machine metal grinding

grinding too

fast for its own function

It comes like this

Exceprt of FLOOD WATCHING by Elizabeth Fodaski 

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Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia.

Originally published on April 9th, 2025, enjoy this episode in which Mike talks with psychotherapist Kurt White about how the internet may help us become ourselves. 

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Any Rigid Idea About Yourself is a Prison

Kurt White

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

Your business in this world

Your nakedness and terror

Your sanctity remains

the crucial battle

Dearly beyond

We are scattered here today

amongst commodities

This town isn’t big enough

for trust

Excerpt of The Concept of Dread by Pam Rehm

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Georgia chats with Ludwig Hurtado of MOLD Magazine's "Food Futures" podcast about luxury grocery brands and the Highsnobiety “Status Report,” that says fashion is dead and food is in.

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The Tyranny of Taste

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spore print of mushroom in the retina, in my dreams

lens displacement in the multi-cellular dark

abyssal sound of leaves in the wind

rushing cloud dance before the sky closes in

except of It Is Difficult to Exaggerate the Importance of Mushrooms as Food, by Chris Torrance

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Mike chats with Maia Woluchem and Cella Sum – co-authors of The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania – about the fight against Data Centers happening across Pennsylvania.

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The AI Factory

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

These newfangled ghosts haunt by telephone and airwave. Acumen will finally languish in a good sense: type would bottle a new motto in live numbers and wine were they only not printers with so many thoughts to slip in media res or the thick of things at grasp root level up a slope on themselves. Our notion of productive labor becomes narrowed to the use of censure and science to ensure I am baffled as Yeats by those voices that still speak to Oddysseus but as the bats.

Excerpt of Shadow Recension by Alan Halsey

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Originally published on April 10th, 2024, enjoy a conversation between Charlie Harding of Switched on Pop and Executive Producer Jason where they talk about what pop-musical acts have sounded like the internet.

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What Does the Internet Sound Like?

• You should listen to Switched on Pop generally, but also here’s the interview they did with 100 gecs.

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

After a confusingly whirlwind week on the AI battlelines, senior producer Hans Buetow seeks the counsel of researcher Dave Karpf to understand what the heck even happened in the past week with all the tweet storms, screeds, panics, and prognostications - is AI going to kill us all in 10 years or not?!?!??

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The World's Most Special Boys Building the Apocalypse

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

The Never Post staff meet to discuss four academic papers on how the internet is getting worse, each from a special edition of the European Journal of Cultural Studies. How is slop like gelatin? In many more ways that you might immediately assume! Tune in to hear about them all!

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Brainrot, AI slop, and the enshittification of the Internet

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

Jesus Christ, my dusty socialist,

“There’s enough sun for everyone,” you state,

your crown chipped like a front tooth

after a bar fight. Behind you a red curtain.

Excerpt of Ephphatha by Spencer Reece

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and distributed by Radiotopia.

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

Georgia talks to Matt Sitman, host of the podcast Know Your Enemy, about Pope Leo XIV's recent comments about the algorithm, and why so much of his papacy seems concerned with the cultural impact of AI. 

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The Pope and AI

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suck up stork torso

into the jet engine

like a fork in the throat so the engine goes

yolo bogo putt-putt

flashing its famous lights like

teeth tho

excerpt of Day of Being by Joyelle McSweeney

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

Never Post is a production of Charts & Leisure and is distributed by Radiotopia

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With the help of listener submissions and the insight of experts Drs Casey Fiesler and Alex Hanna, Senior Producer Hans Buetow investigates how people resist the integration of AI into the workplace, why folks might feel hesitant to broadcast that resistance, and why this topic feels so different from just a year ago. 

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AI At Work? In This Economy?

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Never Post’s producers are Audrey Evans, Georgia Hampton and The Mysterious Dr. Firstname Lastname. Our senior producer is Hans Buetow. Our executive producer is Jason Oberholtzer. The show’s host is Mike Rugnetta.

Of course there are victims in this poem:

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victim you are here victim victim 

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Excerpt of History by Tracy K Smith

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